LEWISTON, Idaho — Juvenile spring chinook are swimming in Sweetwater and Lapwai creeks on the Nez Perce Reservation for the first time in nearly a century. Soon the young fish, released by the Nez ...

Feeling crowded out of the prime fishing spots in the Clearwater Basin, the Nez Perce Tribe will experiment with gill nets and drift nets during Idaho’s spring chinook fishing season. For the tribe, ...

OROFINO, Idaho – There was a fishing village here once. Every spring, different bands of the Nez Perce tribe trekked to this spot, nestled between the pine-covered ridges along the Clearwater River.

tribe's foothold in the Snake River basin teemed with nearly half a million fall chinook. By the 1980s, returns averaged 600 a year, thanks largely to hydropower dams that eliminated 85 percent of the ...

The tribe rushed to buy back its own artifacts in 1996, and has now finally been reimbursed. ˀiméesnim ˀítetp’es, Deer Head Shape Bag, Nez Perce. Courtesy of the Nez Perce National Historical Park.

MISSOULA, Mont. — Bitterroot National Forest reports Nez Perce Road #468 will be closed for two weeks, starting April 28, as workers install a new culvert east of Fales Flat Campground. A press ...

Stacia Morfin shares stories with guests during “Hear the Echoes of Our Ancestors,” a jet boat tour operated by her company Nez Perce Tourism. Brad Stinson Stacia Morfin is of medium height, slim, ...